Journalist FloraEGill has commissioned two portraits of herself naked – and says you should too
The first stage of both was to take my naked photos. Shooting the images for an artist instead of a lover immediately changed the way I approached them. In the past, naked photos were about hiding my blemishes, in positions I knew would be alluring, but now my form didn’t need to be sexualised for a male gaze. I posed with my bowl of cereal, with my rolls in view, with cheesy grins, with my favourite vibrator and with my unwashed hair.
I’d put aside 10 minutes, but alongside my recommended glass of wine, I was still going 40 minutes later when my boyfriend returned from his weekly shop. ‘Oooh, are these for me?’ he asked expectantly, ‘Nope’ I replied, as I continued in another room, leaving him mildly confused and concerned. When I received the final finished products, I loved them both: they were masterpieces and in thinking that about the work I had to consider that maybe the same was true of their subject. Our bodies are remarkable, resilient vessels that we spend too much time belittling and not enough time praising. When we look at ourselves in the mirror or in photos we immediately focus on the flaws but when we look at art we see the beauty.
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